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If you actually put together a comprehensive compendium of Nikodemus' medical history, all manner of death, illness, decay, etc, you would have a goldmine of data on forensic anthropology, virusology, traumatology, genetics, cytology, psychiatry and ancient curses. Walking body farm of a man. Survivor of the silliest deaths imaginable. Medical abomination. Doctors hate him for this one trick he used to avoid mortality. Doctors are hunting him as we speak. The subject has breached security. Code Red.

#thinking about him canonically being put through the most rancid medical experimentation known to man. in the name of science of course #multiple times too #and yeah they made groundbreaking discoveries but at what cost #just my fun little theory on what would happen if you gave scientists an undying medical specimen who could still feel pain #what would happen is /torture/. milgram experiment adjacent bullshit but dialled up to 11 because it's not death by malpractice if the guy #doesn't stay dead 🤷#essentially every few hundred years scholars come across the goldmine. abuse it to full potential. and then loses all progress #when the goldmine escapes and razes everything to the ground behind himself 🤷#granted he doesn't begrudge humanity the effort at all. nor the pain inflicted. but has never allowed them to benefit from it.#there's one study on genetic mutation leftover in the aftermath of a mass disappearance. titled under the name Matteo. and that's it (:#and you bet he experiments on himself plenty but it's all private research no one is privy to #𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑 ‒ nikodemus ║ HEADCANONS

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